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29 February, 2012, Nahom Village, Oudomxay Province, Laos

Book party: At book parties we read from books, play games, and sing songs. At the end of each book party, every student gets to choose a book, usually the first book they've ever owned. Then we give more to the school. Our book parties have two goals. First, we get children excited about books. (Previously, most of them had seen textbooks, but never a book they were eager to read.) Second, we observe closely, to see what books are most avidly read, what's needed, and what techniques help spread a love of reading.

This event was sponsored by Global Fund for Children (United States). Thank you!

This is one of many Big Brother Mouse events sponsored by the Global Fund for Children in Washington. GFC specializes in finding small, locally-based organizations that are doing good work, but may not have high visibility. They found Big Brother Mouse, back when we were a much smaller mouse, and decided that our work was worthy of support. That allowed us to focus on doing a good job for children, rather than writing proposals.

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